Neville Goddard on Daniel 6:19-20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Daniel 6 in context

Scripture Focus

19Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.

20And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?

Daniel 6:19-20

Biblical Context

The king comes at dawn to the den and asks Daniel's God if he can deliver him from the lions.

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture Daniel not simply safe from lions, but the inner state prevailing over fear. The king's dawn-ward haste is your attention rising early to inspect your own consciousness. The den is the closed chamber of the mind where thoughts roar in the form of lions—doubt, worry, threat of failure. The question is, is thy God able to deliver thee? is your own inquiry to the I AM within: can the awareness that you are supremely conscious deliver you from these fears. The answer does not come from outside; it comes as you claim and feel the truth of your own abiding presence. When you accept and imagine your deliverance—seeing the lions melt into stillness by the simple assertion of your nature—you awaken to Providence and Guidance as immediate reality. Daniel is not a man but your Higher Self standing in the light of tomorrow, proving that your salvation is the conversion of fear into faith, of power into gentle assurance. The lions only test the strength of your inner state, and your present assumption writes the outcome into being.